Light as the Organising Principle

The apartment is conceived around its main living space, a generous, double-height room anchored by high ceilings, clerestory windows and skylights that draw natural light deep into the heart of the plan.

The bedrooms face south, quiet and sheltered, while the master bedroom and the terrace open northward, capturing the panoramic view over the city below and the mountains beyond, a skyline that becomes the apartment's most permanent artwork. On three sides, generous balconies wrap the plan, planted with lush greenery that reconstructs, in the air, the garden that was left behind.

A subtle but telling detail: the door to the master bedroom disappears entirely into the timber wall panelling of the living room, maintaining the serenity of the main space while concealing the private threshold.

Warmth, Contrast and the Poetry of Surface

The material palette was chosen with precision and care. The floor is a soft, terrazzo-like stone that unifies the entire open plan beneath its quiet geometry. Against it, warm timber wall panels run vertically.

The raw concrete ceiling remains deliberately unfinished.

Black metal frames outline openings, furniture, and bespoke pieces alike, threading a graphic consistency through the space.

Rendered textured walls, colourful wallpapers, reflective glass elements and glossy tiles in the bathrooms complete a palette that is rich without being restless.

A Story Told in Blue, Saffron and Green

The living and dining areas speak a bold, joyful language: blues, saffrons and greens that circulate through the wallpaper, the artwork, the dining chairs, the living cushions, and the ochre rug that anchors the seating arrangement.

The master bedroom and its bathroom shift to a quieter register: warm browns, burnished golds, beiges and soft greens that envelop the room in calm. It is an intentional contrast, the social spaces vibrate with energy; the private quarters restore.

Designer Furniture

Scattered through the apartment are pieces chosen as much for their sculptural presence as for their function. The Bubble sofas occupy the terrace like oversized pebbles. The Riva 1920 bench, in solid timber, grounds the living room with its crafted weight. The Patchwork dining table presides over the dining area with its characteristic collaged geometric surface. The Echo cupboard brings its signature intricate motif, warm tone and reflections to the master bedroom .

Alongside these design icons, the architect has introduced objects from daily life that he regards as sculpture in their own right: a vintage green Vespa parked against the luminous dining wallpaper with the ease of a still life, and a red electric guitar mounted on corridor wall.

Bespoke Design made for This Space

Several pieces were designed specifically for the apartment, born from the demands of its proportions and spirit.

The bookshelf was conceived to match the exceptional height of the living room, a tall composition of timber boxes set within a thin black metal frame, its rhythm aligned with the cadence of the terrace openings beyond. It holds books, instruments, objects and memories in equal measure, and reads as architecture as much as furniture.

At the entrance lobby, a screen was fabricated from reclaimed solar heater tubes, dark, cylindrical, and slightly reflective, arranged in a vertical grid that filters the transition between the entry and the dining room.

The sliding kitchen pocket door, a black metal frame filled with rectangular glass panes of varying types, clear, textured, reeded, that play with light and transparency.

The Walls Speak

The tall wall of the dining room is clothed in a large-format wallpaper, an aerial view photograph of the Mahebourg canal after rain, by Alexandre Lassemilante.

On the living room wall, Tree by Gaël Froget has followed its owner from the previous house, finding a new life in this new setting, closer and more intimate than before, seen now with fresh eyes.

In the dining room, a large collage titled LIFE, made by the architect himself, assembles fragments of the family's story: travel souvenirs, watches, mobile phones, computer components, all composed in the three signature colours of the apartment, forming the four letters of its title.

A Haven in the Sky

The Queen Mary apartment is the result of a precise and personal vision: that a home in the sky need not sacrifice warmth, texture, nature, or the accumulated meaning of a life well lived. Every surface, every object, every view has been considered.